Quick as a blackjack dealer, we divvied up the name Venus Fly Trap. Without question, Venus went to Soozie though I secretly felt I could be Venus. And before I begged no, Lisa more than …
more
Ramona Jan
|
2/7/23
|
Mom sends me an old black and white photo of her on a fluffy white pony. In the picture, she looks about four years old, maybe five. The pony is soft and cuddly like a plush toy with a black and …
more
Ramona Jan
|
1/31/23
|
Now that medical marijuana is legal in 39 states (NY and PA included as well as our Capitol D.C.), and is also recreationally legal in 21 states plus D.C., I think we can talk.
I grew up in a time …
more
|
I come home to a message on my answering machine from the big boss at the paper. I figure I must be in trouble…again. After all, I did write about the company picnic, but that was so long ago. …
more
Ramona Jan
|
1/17/23
|
During Christmas dinner with friends, a car, headlights gleaming, stops in front of the house. We’re not expecting anyone else. In fact, we just finished the main course. Someone gets out of …
more
Ramona Jan
|
1/10/23
|
I think we can all agree that it’s time again for a full-length Columbo movie. The first Columbo movie, technically a TV pilot, aired in 1968. The second pilot was released in ’71 and …
more
Ramona Jan
|
1/6/23
|
My grandmother, Lina Dreher, was sixteen when she kept this diary. Additional names mentioned are those of her brothers and sisters except for Daisy who was a family friend.
Dec 16th
…
more
12/27/22
|
My grandmother, Lina Dreher, was sixteen when she kept this diary. Additional names mentioned are those of her brothers and sisters except for Daisy who was a family friend.
Dec 16th
Went …
more
Ramona Jan
|
12/23/22
|
Ah, the inevitable, a notice for jury duty. Like death, they never come at a good time. This one’s for my husband.
“I’ll just tell them I work online and they’ll excuse …
more
Ramona Jan
|
12/20/22
|
In the summer of ’73, when I was still in high school, actor/comedian Charles Nelson Reilly (The Ghost and Mrs. Muir/The Match Game) was on a plane to NYC where he was scheduled to teach …
more
12/13/22
|
My grandmother, Lina Dreher, was born January 28th, 1897 or so she thought. In the late 1800’s people born at home did not typically get birth certificates. With nine Dreher homebirths, all …
more
|
“How much for your mirrors?” asks a stranger about my artistic creations that took hours and days to make, cost mucho money in materials, and happen to be advertised online.
…
more
Ramona Jan
|
11/29/22
|